MFP 188: Cheerios in the Pew: Wrangling Kids at Mass
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We've all been there. You're trying to calm a crying infant, the toddler is crawling under the pews, the seven year old is drawing in the missal, and you wonder if your teenager is getting anything out of this at all. What are we talking about? Taking kids to mass! The mass is the font and summit of our faith but so many times we wonder if our kids are Pay attention at all. Does standing in the parking lot with a crying infant or chasing a toddler through the vestibule count as your Sunday obligation? In this podcast, we talk about the challenges and importance of bringing our children to Jesus in mass. The world that children live in is completely different than ours psychologically and spiritually. It is absolutely vital that parents recognize this in order to nurture the child's growing relationship with Christ. Listen in as we share our stories and insights on encouraging participation in this most important family prayer, Holy mass.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan. |
| 0:14.4 | And Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:20.8 | Thank you. but they're not excellent because family life is really messy. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello, messy families. It is a wonderful day in the neighborhood. It is the Easter season and we all survived the Tritome, right? Survived? Well, I guess, and I'm thinking about the topic today, bringing your kids to Mass and bringing |
| 0:41.6 | your kids to church. |
| 0:43.4 | And, you know, it's like the marathon, right? |
| 0:45.2 | The Tritome was like, okay, guys, every day we're going to go to church for like two |
| 0:49.1 | hours. |
| 0:49.6 | Yes. |
| 0:50.0 | Can you do it? |
| 0:50.8 | Even our kids are like, I'm like, how many years have we been doing this? They're like, wait, mass every day. I go to church every day. I know. And you're like, |
| 0:57.3 | wait a minute. Aren't you 14? Haven't you been doing this for the last 14 springs of your life? |
| 1:02.7 | They still, it's like new every year. It's so funny. It is so great. Yeah, I know, but this is a topic we get asked a lot about and we wanted to get to it. |
| 1:13.1 | But, you know, just on the front end of this, we will link to a video. If you haven't seen it yet, |
| 1:18.1 | there's a great little video, some, I don't know, they're not friends yet, but they, we feel kindred with them. |
| 1:25.1 | So a kind of a post mass press conference as if this was like a, |
| 1:30.4 | like a sporting event or something. |
| 1:32.6 | Like how did you do? |
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